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1502 III | this morning?' making a pretext of the~uneasiness I had
1503 II | tell a story?~ ~De Marsay, prime minister for some six months,
1504 VI | middle class insist on seeing~princesses, these are really only ladylike
1505 III | my fortune, of which, on principle, I have always kept the
1506 VI | through long columns of type printed in old~mansions where a
1507 IV | or which are executed~by prisoners. He brought me up to date
1508 VII | independent~but in perfect privacy, or theoretically. She must
1509 VIII| tend to solve some of the problems of the will.~ ~"I was going
1510 VIII| he willed everything; a prodigious phenomenon of will,~conquering
1511 VIII| little stout perhaps, but prodigiously powerful, active, and clean-~
1512 VII | in such a position as to produce the magical effect~of the '
1513 IV | different."~ ~The words produced in each of us the imperceptible
1514 II | part with a false passion professed for an indifferent person~
1515 II | being master of himself; of profiting more or~less, under all
1516 II | uttered this terrible but profoundly true thought," said de~Marsay. "
1517 I | river-like flow which makes this profusion~of ideas, of definitions,
1518 V | have been looking on at the progressive ruin of all~social distinctions.
1519 VII | and all is said--she has pronounced~judgment beyond appeal,
1520 IX | sounded. Though this faulty pronunciation was at times a grace, when~
1521 VIII| standard, and was admirably proportioned--a~little stout perhaps,
1522 VIII| Madame Recamier appear in proportions as fine as~those of the
1523 VII | compromises, of guarded proprieties, of~anonymous passions steered
1524 IV | obstacle in the way of~this prospect, this distinguished life,
1525 VIII| simplicity; devoid of taste, but protecting the arts; and in spite of~
1526 VII | is neither Catholic nor Protestant--but moral?~Oh! deuced moral!--
1527 IV | wrong. Nothing more clearly proves the necessity for~indissoluble
1528 VIII| chance--which you may call Providence--inevitably overwhelming~
1529 VI | every soil, even of the provinces is the expression~of these
1530 I | never~stalks there, on the prowl for a clever sally or an
1531 IV | virtuous. You must turn prude; I advise you to~do so.
1532 IV | before her with a little~prudish and indignant mein.--'Marry
1533 VI | see that she is shod with prunella~shoes, with sandals crossed
1534 VIII| sufferings, which lack the publicity--the glory, if you choose--
1535 VIII| she did, and who do not publish their letters.~Whether the
1536 V | one of his eye-sockets by puckering up his~cheek, and whether
1537 IX | and who lay yelping in~the puddle where the gun carriage had
1538 IV | always a~moment when one pulls daisies to pieces, even
1539 IX | the dying woman's pillow;~pulmonary consumption, in the last
1540 V | a pair of~patent-leather pumps graced by silk socks which
1541 IX | cries and an indescribable pungent smell. A few yards behind,
1542 IX | And what was the punishment of Monsieur de Marsay's '
1543 II | base as ever to doubt the purity of that angel--so~fragile
1544 VII | she~goes down so slowly on purpose to gratify the vanity of
1545 Add | Eve~ ~Bridau, Joseph~ The Purse~ A Bachelor's Establishment~
1546 VI | over hill and dale~in his pursuit of plants, among the vulgarities
1547 VII | should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet~or curl
1548 VI | expression. Study the way she puts her foot forward moulding
1549 V | with trains! I am still~puzzled to understand how a sovereign
1550 I | unity to all these social~qualities, an indescribable river-like
1551 VI | districts of the citizen~quarters, between No. 30 and No.
1552 VII | music with its crotchets and quavers and~minims, its rests, its
1553 III | keep my appointment; the queen of my heart met me; I saw~
1554 IV | You will be one of the queens of Paris. I~should be doing
1555 IX | course, they asked me~some questions, and we related our misadventures,
1556 IV | admiring the pliancy of her quick intelligence, and these
1557 IX | yes, by heaven, and pretty quickly too.~ ~"The captain, who
1558 IX | common. When the Colonel was quiescent, his blue eyes were~angelically
1559 VI | frames.~Her aspect, at once quiet and disdainful, makes the
1560 VIII| blue~eyes. His whole frame quivered, and his strength, great
1561 V | creating duchesses, founded the race of our 'ladies' of~to-day--
1562 VI | ladies; royal favor could not raise them higher by a~hair's
1563 VI | honor on a woman taken up at random. The Duc de Bourbon~was
1564 VIII| romance--and all with more range than precision. Did he not~
1565 IV | you a~great name, the only rank that suits you, a brilliant
1566 I | pleasure, and leave wounds that rankle long, the groups thin~out,
1567 VI | lady,' issuing~from the ranks of the nobility, or sprouting
1568 VI | of serene dignity, like Raphael's Madonnas in their frames.~
1569 II | abandoned~myself to that rapturous idolatry which is at once
1570 VII | our horrible times. She rarely goes to church,~but she
1571 V | deliberately planned!'--'No, only a rational issue.'--'Good-bye,~Monsieur
1572 IV | executed.' Before this last ray of light I might~have believed
1573 II | judgment of a sort of moral ready-reckoner."~ ~"That explains why a
1574 III | fancies,~turns them into reality and torment; and such jealousy
1575 VII | shoulder-strap, or pushing down~a rebellious whalebone, or looking whether
1576 V | can still suffer when I recall her perfidy, I still laugh
1577 VI | throat, a science of drapery recalling the antique Mnemosyne.~ ~"
1578 VIII| followed us, will not Madame Recamier appear in proportions as
1579 III | disposed of her~time after receiving my first note.--'Ah!' she
1580 VIII| some frozen~beetroots. I recognized among the company two or
1581 IV | be~as devout as possible, reconcile yourself to God, for the
1582 Add | Cesar Birotteau~ Melmoth Reconciled~ Lost Illusions~ A Distinguished
1583 I | improvisation impossible to record; still, by setting~these
1584 III | I ascribed my sudden reddening and the tears which started
1585 VIII| to be more explicit, in Redgauntlet's horseshoe. This mark was,~
1586 VI | marching~forward to attack a redoubt. The women of Paris have
1587 VII | she is~accomplished in the redundancies of dress.~ ~ ~"You will
1588 VII | passions steered between two reef-bound shores. She is as~much afraid
1589 IV | a dexterous fraud. Such refined hypocrisy is~as good as
1590 VII | that she should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet~
1591 II | by any reflections."~ ~"Reflection is so antipathetic to it!"
1592 VII | citizen class, pulling up a refractory shoulder-strap, or pushing
1593 I | Paris as being the~last refuge where the old French wit
1594 IX | The captain, of course, refused; but the~colonel of the
1595 VII | struggles where the other refuses point-blank~and falls full
1596 I | thought for a play; and no one regards a story as material~for
1597 VIII| in these days, under a regime~which makes everything small,
1598 VI | seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue Saint-Denis,~
1599 IX | which he manifested the regret he felt at having lost sight
1600 I | successful than under the reign of Louis~Philippe, when
1601 IX | me~some questions, and we related our misadventures, mingled
1602 I | every one finds amusement,~relaxation, and exercise. Here, then,
1603 IV | more than~devout, he is religious! I am sure, therefore, that
1604 IX | foresaw her fate. Rosina remained quietly in her place.~ ~"
1605 III | he felt the~truth of this remark.~ ~"Besides," de Marsay
1606 VI | for her.~ ~"Her bonnet, remarkable for its simplicity, is trimmed
1607 II | leave, having frequently remarked the change which a~move
1608 I | Ingenious repartee, acute remarks, admirable banter,~pictures
1609 VII | and religion is the~only remedy; it unites families which
1610 V | Madame la~Duchesse will not remember Charlotte's grievances?'--'
1611 II | point. These few words will remind you of your own follies.~ ~"
1612 III | was the letter sent than remorse seized me: she will~not
1613 I | out, at supper every one~renounced his pretensions to importance.
1614 I | the~most famous. Ingenious repartee, acute remarks, admirable
1615 IX | couch~of straw or hay, he repeated, 'Rosina?'~ ~"The tone of
1616 VII | destroying its work in order to replace it~by something else. When
1617 VII | give pleasure, and must be replaced; to her they~are, as in
1618 IX | then, without~waiting for a reply, went into the little barn
1619 IV | my permission,' said~I, replying to this gesture by using
1620 IV | represent in Parliamentary reports by the words:~/great sensation/.~ ~"
1621 IV | which~newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary reports
1622 VIII| understand Napoleon? A man represented with his~arms folded, and
1623 VII | that the 'perfect lady' represents the~intellectual no less
1624 VII | For in our day a woman repudiated by her husband, reduced
1625 VI | come to make a literary~reputation in Paris. "The explanation
1626 I | merits have won them European reputations. This is not a~piece of
1627 II | Nucingen interposed, "I~request that it may not be interrupted
1628 IX | the night, we heard sounds resembling the roar of lions~in the
1629 I | has found a home, with its~reserved depths, its myriad subtle
1630 V | francs a year, a magnificent residence, and a sumptuous train~of
1631 VII | fortune are no longer~flags so respected as to protect all kinds
1632 II | her~hair; in short, she responded to my madness by her own.
1633 IX | which was thin and very restless, turned down~at the corners
1634 III | this proud thought somewhat restored my~strength: 'If she is
1635 VII | quavers and~minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps
1636 III | atrocious dissimulation, was the result of my youth and my love.
1637 V | Napoleon never guessed the results of the Code he was so proud
1638 V | effected a more judicious retreat at the first~attempt. As
1639 VI | has acknowledged her by retreating~to the recesses of its landed
1640 II | that of the same~persons returned to the drawing-room? The
1641 VI | whisper, hide her~face or reveal it. A fan is of no use now
1642 VII | which her bodice scarcely revealed in the morning. At the~theatre
1643 III | terrible and irreparable revenges~were possible--I despised
1644 IX | nothing more terrible than the revolt of a sheep," said de~Marsay.~ ~"
1645 VI | country to the other in~a revolutionary jargon, through long columns
1646 VI | simplicity, is trimmed with crisp~ribbons; there may be flowers in
1647 IX | they all laughed too.--'/Tu ridi?/~--you laugh?' said the
1648 IX | But there was, too, in the rigid setting of her features
1649 IV | should part,~for the Duke is rigidly virtuous. You must turn
1650 VII | hanging to her finger by a ring. She gets an artificial~
1651 VII | refix, or push aside the ringlet~or curl she plays with.
1652 VIII| capricious politician who~risked men by handfuls out of economy,
1653 III | out. I could~observe my rival's expression; he was grave,
1654 I | qualities, an indescribable river-like flow which makes this profusion~
1655 VI | 110th~Arcade of the Rue de Rivoli; along the line of the Boulevards
1656 IX | champagne rose to~his lips; he roared inarticulately like a lion.
1657 VI | said the Marquise de Rochegude acridly.~ ~"The press has
1658 II | addressing Lord Dudley, "I rode past her~open carriage,
1659 V | Vandenesse. "In these days every rogue who~can hold his head straight
1660 IX | spoke with a strong guttural roll. His voice, at least as
1661 VIII| kings, codes,~verses, a romance--and all with more range
1662 V | nowadays would be like making~romantic love to an actress.'--'What
1663 III | which are buried under the roofs of Paris like pearls in
1664 VII | nostrils are transparently rosy, the forehead squarely modeled,
1665 VII | on space, and the white~roundness of the chin is accentuated
1666 IX | morning each one, without rousing his neighbor or seeking~
1667 VI | opera-~box with other ladies; royal favor could not raise them
1668 VII | premeditation. If she has a royally beautiful hand,~the most
1669 VI | gaping slit in the back, rubbed shoe-leather, ironed~bonnet-strings,
1670 V | looking on at the progressive ruin of all~social distinctions.
1671 I | because never, under any rule, have there been fewer~men
1672 VI | have ruled the world by ruling the men of art or~of intellect
1673 V | Imagine how her words had run away with her.)--'Yes, indeed,
1674 II | her/ window. All my blood rushed to my heart when I~inhaled
1675 IX | Napoleon before~the invasion of Russia.~ ~"Everything was in contrasts
1676 IX | generals, their mistakes, the~Russians, and the cold. A minute
1677 VI | strings showing loops of rusty-white~tape through a gaping slit
1678 IX | hope; she had taken~the sacrament the day before. The Duke
1679 I | the gloom which in company saddens the~prettiest faces. In
1680 II | Songs!' Ah! my~friends!" sadly exclaimed the Minister,
1681 VII | of a flower, and all is said--she has pronounced~judgment
1682 VI | 130 of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-~Honore. During the winter,
1683 VI | hyperborean regions of the Rue Saint-Denis,~never in the Kamtschatka
1684 I | opposition of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, two~or three women, among
1685 VI | gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Never is this pretty variety
1686 VIII| or Malibran the~equal of Saint-Huberti? Are not our poets superior
1687 IV | eight times made me go to Saint-Thomas d'Aquin to~see you listening
1688 I | on the prowl for a clever sally or an interesting~subject.~ ~
1689 I | closed their houses.~ ~The salon of Mademoiselle des Touches
1690 VI | could have founded~European /salons/, could have guided opinion
1691 III | favor, a courtier, cold and~sanctimonious, whom she never received
1692 VI | with prunella~shoes, with sandals crossed over extremely fine
1693 I | well Madame de~Portenduere sang!" "Who is that little woman
1694 VI | everything; whose vanity, satiated by being constantly gratified,~
1695 VII | Blondet~illustrated his satire.~ ~"This explanation, dear
1696 IX | times, and if~you are not satisfied by my apologies I am ready
1697 VI | fine~morning you go for a saunter in Paris. It is past two,
1698 Add | Portenduere, Vicomtesse Savinien de~ Ursule Mirouet~ Beatrix~ ~
1699 IV | were~very beautiful--and we scaled the Alps of sentiment, culling
1700 VII | in summer, a shawl and a scarf; she is~accomplished in
1701 VIII| women with a smile at~once sceptical and ironical. "Because,
1702 II | observant we had adopted a~scheme of conduct: never to look
1703 VIII| splendor fabulous? Have the sciences lost anything?"~ ~"I am
1704 I | waxlights burn down to the~sconces.~ ~The mistress of the house
1705 VIII| Napoleon any grudge on that score," said Canalis,~with an
1706 II | should have crushed with my scorn the philosopher who~first
1707 IX | could hear a woman's feeble scream. We all looked~round, seized
1708 VII | longer advances in a body to screen the lady.~She has not, like
1709 V | socks which cost six francs,~screws his eye-glass into one of
1710 IX | driver took to keep among the~scrub, the wheel of the first
1711 IV | faithful to me, thanks to his scruples. You cannot imagine how~
1712 VII | charming model ever~given to a sculptor by lassitude.~ ~"Only the
1713 Add | Courtesan's Life~ Honorine~ The Seamy Side of History~ The Magic
1714 VIII| Zembin, and was~wandering in search of a house where I might
1715 IX | their intellect. He came to~seat himself in an armchair by
1716 IV | themselves so~well acted, for he seconded the words by airs, and sidelong
1717 II | but then they~must be very secure of each other.~
1718 | seems
1719 II | speak ill of each other. Self-admiration, swagger, or playing the~
1720 I | display of luxury, a review of self-conceits in full~dress, is one of
1721 IX | Colonel's utterance was self-evident. The young~wife replied
1722 IX | most horrible dramas of self-seeking,~melancholy, and horror
1723 VII | children! Ah! let us not be~selfish! Individualism is the disease
1724 IX | again on his way, with that selfishness which~made our rout one
1725 V | girls, whom she no longer~sends to school at a convent.
1726 IV | reports by the words:~/great sensation/.~ ~"Cured of my cold, and
1727 VIII| Charles Nodier, I found my own sensations in every~one of his elegant
1728 IV | and we scaled the Alps of sentiment, culling their~sweetest
1729 II | old~Lord Dudley.~ ~"From a sentimental point of view, this is horrible,"
1730 II | noting our~passions and our sentiments, and whispering to us in
1731 I | there are almost always two separate parties going on at~every
1732 V | getting~people to take them seriously."~ ~"Aristocracy begins
1733 VIII| speech and the~silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit
1734 V | and a sumptuous train~of servants--well, such a duke could
1735 VIII| regiment in which I had first served. I was welcomed~with a shout
1736 VII | from its silky~cocoon. She serves up, like some rare dainty,
1737 VIII| partition, the~smaller division serving as a store-room for forage.~ ~"
1738 VI | turtle, but which in her sets off the most~beautiful forms
1739 IX | Nevertheless, at about seven or eight hundred paces from
1740 II | Joseph Bridau.~ ~"I was seventeen," de Marsay went on; "the
1741 VIII| XIV. had but~one Madame de Sevigne; we have a thousand now
1742 IV | instability of passion. The two sexes~must be chained up, like
1743 III | light, is as fragile as a shade~--well, that beautiful self
1744 I | wit~is condensed into a shaft, each speaker utters his
1745 III | could behave so: indeed Shakespeare~felt this when he called
1746 VII | by all these women: 'For shame! I thought you had~too much
1747 V | to an actress.'--'What a shameless betrayal! It was~deliberately
1748 VIII| s; he had small hands, a shapely foot,~a pleasant mouth,
1749 I | that the opinion is perhaps shared~by a few others, a few insignificant
1750 VII | its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the key. A mere
1751 II | ideas of an author after shaving are different from those
1752 VI | cape, stirs its lace frill,~sheds an airy balm, and what I
1753 IX | terrible than the revolt of a sheep," said de~Marsay.~ ~"It
1754 IX | eight hundred paces from our shelter~we, most of us, met again
1755 VII | gives you the opportunity of shining,~and--I ask your modesty--
1756 VI | You will see that she is shod with prunella~shoes, with
1757 VI | slit in the back, rubbed shoe-leather, ironed~bonnet-strings,
1758 VI | she is shod with prunella~shoes, with sandals crossed over
1759 I | indeed, the men who most shone were not the~most famous.
1760 VII | steered between two reef-bound shores. She is as~much afraid of
1761 IX | moustache, bid us good-night, shot~a black look at the Italian
1762 VII | pulling up a refractory shoulder-strap, or pushing down~a rebellious
1763 VI | Bridau. "In our day we cannot show~those beautiful flowers
1764 VI | hooks ill fastened, strings showing loops of rusty-white~tape
1765 VII | high light, the nose is shown in clear outline, the~nostrils
1766 VIII| creature who bridles or shows off, who~chirps out the
1767 VII | one before four; she is shrewd~enough always to keep you
1768 VIII| degree; all the great figures~shrink into the background, and
1769 III | me thenceforth for ever shrouded in~crape. Yes; I felt a
1770 VII | toss her head, or gently shrug her white~shoulders; she
1771 VIII| Lady Barimore; "I love to~shudder!"~ ~"It is the taste of
1772 IX | lamp, looked like every sickroom at the hour~of death.~ ~"
1773 IV | seconded the words by airs, and sidelong attitudes,~and mincing grimaces
1774 VII | staircase~warmed. Flowers on all sides will charm your sight--flowers,
1775 IV | calmly about~me.'--'Calmly!' sighed she. 'That is enough, Henri;
1776 VII | all sides will charm your sight--flowers, the only~gift she
1777 IX | cry, he made a terrific signal to his antagonist,~pointing
1778 II | read the order of the day signaled to me by the flowers of
1779 VII | like a butterfly from its silky~cocoon. She serves up, like
1780 III | performed for the benefit of simpletons and drawing-room~circles,
1781 VII | superlative trivialities; she simply drops her hand~impressively,
1782 III | It is fifteen years since--well, even while I tell
1783 VII | will fail in the attempt single-handed. If~you have had no opportunity
1784 V | must~die, or at any rate sink into perpetual melancholy,"
1785 IV | handkerchiefs. You have there, sir, one of the finest pieces
1786 II | interval when every one may sit with an elbow on the table
1787 V | feeling, indispensable to the situation in which she wished to~place
1788 V | descendants will~have but sixty or eighty thousand francs
1789 I | book. In short, the hideous skeleton of literature at bay never~
1790 VIII| in accordance with the sketch you have drawn," said~Mademoiselle
1791 II | excited in them with so much skill.~ ~"Every morning, riding
1792 VII | undecided, tucks up her skirts to cross a gutter, dragging
1793 IX | stretched on the~ground, his skull split in two. The soldiers
1794 VII | will last~perhaps after Sleep, with his heavy finger,
1795 VI | her supple or dangerous slenderness writhe under~the stuff,
1796 II | letter of Concini's peril,~slept till midday, when his benefactor
1797 IV | in mine, that her start, slight as it was, could not be~
1798 II | submissiveness. Never was there the slightest hesitancy~in her attitude,
1799 V | powder, patches, high-heeled~slippers, and stiff bodices with
1800 VI | rusty-white~tape through a gaping slit in the back, rubbed shoe-leather,
1801 IX | bordered by a somewhat high slope on one~side, and by thickets
1802 VII | Perhaps she~goes down so slowly on purpose to gratify the
1803 II | Othello-power, that terrible passion slumbered in~me as gold in the nugget.
1804 I | Or, after firing off some smart epigrams, which give~transient
1805 IX | an indescribable pungent smell. A few yards behind, the~
1806 III | distressing."~ ~A foreign minister smiled as, by the light of memory,
1807 IX | First'?" said~Lord Dudley, smiling.~ ~"When the English are
1808 IX | angelically sweet, and his smooth brow had a most charming
1809 VI | writhe under~the stuff, as a snake does under the green gauze
1810 V | with life.' she~said; 'you snatch away all my illusions; you
1811 IV | other sense it would~be socially wrong. Nothing more clearly
1812 IX | was absolute. The~room, softly lighted by a lamp, looked
1813 VI | and the product of every soil, even of the provinces is
1814 I | Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of
1815 III | the way she was full of a~solicitude and tenderness that might
1816 II | whether he~would prove to be a solid politician, or had merely
1817 VIII| the mind; it may~tend to solve some of the problems of
1818 IV | light I might~have believed something--might have taken a woman'
1819 | sometimes
1820 II | the Oriental Lily of the 'Song of Songs!' Ah! my~friends!"
1821 II | Oriental Lily of the 'Song of Songs!' Ah! my~friends!" sadly
1822 I | you think of going away soon to La Crampade?" "How well
1823 III | like pearls in the~sea. No sooner was the letter sent than
1824 VIII| is not the less an Agnes Sorel.~Do you believe that our
1825 III | dispel~anguish, doubt, and sorrow. All my rage vanished. I
1826 III | confidence which to some souls is the very foundation of
1827 IX | spent the night, we heard sounds resembling the roar of lions~
1828 IX | with all the fire of the Southern sun in~her black almond-shaped
1829 V | puzzled to understand how a sovereign who wished to see his drawing-~
1830 VII | spangle of fire, but fixed on space, and the white~roundness
1831 VII | modeled, the~eye has its spangle of fire, but fixed on space,
1832 II | a marble casing."~ ~"Oh! spare us your terrible verdicts,"
1833 VIII| out of economy, and who spared three heads--~those of Talleyrand,
1834 I | brilliant precision, all sparkled and flowed~without elaboration,
1835 I | condensed into a shaft, each speaker utters his phrase and casts~
1836 IV | good as virtue.--I am not speaking to you Englishwomen, my
1837 VI | pure.~ ~"This delightful species affects the hottest latitudes,
1838 VIII| girl might amuse herself by splashing~water in her bath! Hypocritical
1839 IV | distinguished life, this splendid alliance. Ah!~Charlotte,
1840 V | journalists, which demolished the splendors of the social~state," said
1841 IX | on the~ground, his skull split in two. The soldiers of
1842 IX | appearance, but wiry and full of spring. Her husband, a gentleman
1843 II | comfortably on one of the springy chairs which are made~in
1844 VII | some neo-Christian speech sprinkled with~political notions which
1845 VI | ranks of the nobility, or sprouting from the citizen class,~
1846 II | an echo in the listeners, spurred the~curiosity he had excited
1847 VII | persons or at things, but at squalid events,~and it dies in a
1848 VII | transparently rosy, the forehead squarely modeled, the~eye has its
1849 II | to be taken back to their~stable.~ ~"The statesman, my friends,
1850 VII | pantry. You will find the staircase~warmed. Flowers on all sides
1851 VII | calm and stately, on the stairs, she is experiencing some
1852 I | understood, and will not risk staking~your gold pieces against
1853 I | literature at bay never~stalks there, on the prowl for
1854 VIII| Empire its distinguishing stamp as the age of Louis XV.
1855 VI | being constantly gratified,~stamps her face with an indifference
1856 V | or a~banker's bastard, he stares impertinently at the prettiest
1857 III | brutal~truth so brutally stated.~ ~"I will say nothing of
1858 VII | is to be seen,~calm and stately, on the stairs, she is experiencing
1859 II | the world, and which makes statesmen such~delightful storytellers
1860 II | looking round.~ ~"He would not stay to supper," said Madame
1861 VII | proprieties, of~anonymous passions steered between two reef-bound shores.
1862 VII | have~opened the way for the stereotyped phrases, the head-shaking
1863 V | high-heeled~slippers, and stiff bodices with a delta stomacher
1864 III | attacked by the feverish stiffness which marks the~beginning
1865 VI | her long black silk cape, stirs its lace frill,~sheds an
1866 VIII| emphasizing the words with a stolen glance, which~might make
1867 V | stiff bodices with a delta stomacher of bows. Duchesses~in these
1868 V | state of affairs, for she stopped in front of me, held out
1869 VIII| smaller division serving as a store-room for forage.~ ~"In the darkness
1870 I | power of the actor and the story-teller, had never so~completely
1871 II | statesmen such~delightful storytellers when, like Prince Talleyrand
1872 VIII| admirably proportioned--a~little stout perhaps, but prodigiously
1873 II | knowing that woman~is a stove with a marble casing."~ ~"
1874 V | rogue who~can hold his head straight in his collar, cover his
1875 IX | as I thought, betrayed~a streak of cruelty in a character
1876 VI | miry, narrow, commercial streets, never~anywhere in bad weather.
1877 IX | saw our Colonel's opponent stretched on the~ground, his skull
1878 VIII| had~food, and the room, strewn with trusses of straw, gave
1879 V | plainly,' said I, with a stricken~air; 'you have far too much
1880 V | obliged to live with~the strictest economy in a flat on the
1881 VII | volume in a word--no longer strikes, as it did in the~eighteenth
1882 VI | Parisians: hooks ill fastened, strings showing loops of rusty-white~
1883 VI | you hear it? And the first stroke is your modern word /lady/."~ ~"
1884 V | have loved this man! I have struggled! I~have----' On this last
1885 VII | will~be; she hesitates and struggles where the other refuses
1886 V | under curling locks, and strut in a pair of~patent-leather
1887 VI | slenderness writhe under~the stuff, as a snake does under the
1888 III | that Othello was not only stupid, but showed very bad taste.~
1889 IV | lady,"~said the Minister, suavely, addressing Lady Barimore,
1890 VI | mingled with desire, but subdued by deep respect. When an~
1891 I | sally or an interesting~subject.~ ~The memory of one of
1892 V | I replied, taking up a submissive attitude, 'Madame la~Duchesse
1893 II | her heart~with adorable submissiveness. Never was there the slightest
1894 IX | the connections which had subsisted between his wife~and the
1895 I | reserved depths, its myriad subtle byways, and its exquisite~
1896 II | women, painting it with the subtlety peculiar to persons~who
1897 V | of men who have had great success with~women, but I do not
1898 IX | was indifferent to such successes.~ ~"To give you an idea
1899 III | of you!'~ ~"I ascribed my sudden reddening and the tears
1900 III | think of anything but your~suffering. Till the moment when I
1901 VIII| beautiful devotion, of sublime~sufferings, which lack the publicity--
1902 II | with an amount of~fortune sufficient for a woman who had loved
1903 VII | about, but not so as to suggest a museum or a curiosity~
1904 IX | altogether defaced, still suggested love to any man who could
1905 VII | long known~what does not suit her. You will not find her
1906 III | Paris; but at last, within a suitable~distance of her house, I
1907 IV | name, the only rank that suits you, a brilliant and~distinguished
1908 II | Every morning, riding Sultan--the fine horse you sent
1909 VII | boa over her fur cloak; in summer, a shawl and a scarf; she
1910 V | magnificent residence, and a sumptuous train~of servants--well,
1911 VI | word of the Empire, and sums up~Napoleon completely."~ ~"
1912 IX | the fire of the Southern sun in~her black almond-shaped
1913 VII | coquettish~grace of a cat in the sunshine, her feet outstretched without
1914 VII | artificial~grandeur out of superlative trivialities; she simply
1915 I | If we no longer have many suppers~nowadays, it is because
1916 VI | harmonious~twist, which makes her supple or dangerous slenderness
1917 VII | and you~deprive it of its support. Why, religion at this moment
1918 V | little lady to~whom I was supposed to be attached.'~ ~"Charlotte
1919 V | deceived me horribly.'--~'Surely,' I replied, taking up a
1920 IX | thousand odd ways on the surface, such as often lead to a
1921 III | business, I still feel a surging in my heart and the hot
1922 IV | achievements of patience surpassing~those which the story books
1923 II | him long were not~indeed surprised to see him display all the
1924 VI | but made in a way that surprises more than one~woman of the
1925 V | smile.~ ~"Countesses will survive," said de Marsay. "An elegant
1926 II | carefully round the table, "can suspect her name or~recognize her.
1927 II | went on, "but~incapable of suspecting that it had overmastered
1928 IV | you think the Duke has any~suspicions?' I was still 'Henri,' but
1929 III | wont to affect jealousy~and suspiciousness.--When jealousy is genuine,"
1930 II | other. Self-admiration, swagger, or playing the~disdained
1931 II | or playing the~disdained swain,--all these old manoeuvres
1932 IV | sentiment, culling their~sweetest flowers, and pulling off
1933 VII | likes in you is a man to swell her~circle, an object for
1934 IX | barricaded, and~was in flames. Swirls of smoke borne on the wind
1935 VII | they~are, as in the East, a symbol and a promise. The costly
1936 VIII| century--a~bastard system, symptomatic of an age in which nothing
1937 I | who knew the~world. By tacit agreement, perfectly carried
1938 V | These were admirable tactics. She was bewitching in this
1939 VIII| spoken and done? Is not Taglioni a match for Camargo? or
1940 III | well, even while I tell the tale, I, the~exhausted orator,
1941 II | see him display all the talents and various~aptitudes of
1942 VII | a~mother in public, and talks to her daughter; she carries
1943 VIII| s army, my colonel was a tall man, at least eight~or nine
1944 VI | showing loops of rusty-white~tape through a gaping slit in
1945 VII | position as a lady. This is her task.~ ~"For in our day a woman
1946 VIII| Hypocritical and generous; loving tawdriness and~simplicity; devoid of
1947 IX | small rose mouth and white teeth, the outline of her~features
1948 IX | The stories the doctor tells us," said the Comte de Vandenesse,~"
1949 VIII| everything by instinct or by~temperament; Caesar at five-and-twenty,
1950 VII | opened the ivory gates~of the temple of dreams.~ ~"The lady,
1951 IV | love; she was~indeed too tender to escape alarms; for the
1952 V | come. I looked at her very tenderly after a pause, and said
1953 VII | apt at Jesuitical /mezzo termine/, she is a~creature of equivocal
1954 VI | the winter, she haunts the terrace of the Feuillants,~but not
1955 IX | or even a cry, he made a terrific signal to his antagonist,~
1956 VIII| was,~perhaps, even more terrifying than the magnetic flashes
1957 IX | know not what impulse of terror; we no longer saw~the house,
1958 VII | revealed in the morning. At the~theatre she never mounts higher
1959 VI | emeritus/ distinguishes them--women~are such consummate
1960 III | beautiful self was in me thenceforth for ever shrouded in~crape.
1961 VII | but in perfect privacy, or theoretically. She must preserve herself
1962 | Thereupon
1963 VI | forehead, a large foot, a~thick hand--she was a great lady
1964 IX | slope on one~side, and by thickets on the other. When we were
1965 IX | A busy statesman, always thinking of the interests of France,
1966 I | flow of ideas. No one there thinks of~keeping his thought for
1967 VI | antique Mnemosyne.~ ~"Oh! how thoroughly she understands the /cut/
1968 V | I thus acquired over the~thoughtless impulses which make us commit
1969 VIII| him of greater weight than thousands of soldiers; a man to~whom
1970 IX | could not feel at seeing her thralldom thus flaunted without human~
1971 II | have ordered my servant to thrash me~if I had been so base
1972 VI | to see her again. And she threads her way through Paris~like
1973 VI | round her waist, about~her throat, a science of drapery recalling
1974 VIII| she were~born close to a throne, to acquire before the age
1975 IX | right leg and~broke it, throwing him over on the near side
1976 IX | where the gun carriage had thrown him, had an Italian wife,~
1977 IV | marry the Duke?'~ ~"The thrust was so direct, my gaze met
1978 IX | under a piece of a shawl tied close~over her head, still
1979 VII | mounts higher than the second tier, excepting at the~Italiens.
1980 IX | of her features and~the tight knitting of her brows a
1981 IV | boldly, and her hand~lay so tightly in mine, that her start,
1982 IV | insisted on verifying the tint of the hair. My wife herself
1983 VIII| delicately formed, of which the~tip used to become naturally
1984 V | race of our 'ladies' of~to-day--the indirect offspring of
1985 I | extravagance of going home to-morrow morning and getting up late.~
1986 I | Dedication~To Leon Gozlan as a Token of Literary Good-fellowship.~
1987 VI | of the highest society is tolling," said a Russian Prince.~"
1988 VIII| small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring,~
1989 III | turns them into reality and torment; and such jealousy is as~
1990 VII | be~fascinated. She will toss her head, or gently shrug
1991 VII | attack religion. Society is tottering, and you~deprive it of its
1992 VII | your heart with a delicate touch, and have asked~you your
1993 IX | signed to me in the most touching~way, with a friendly smile,
1994 I | which makes conversation a tourney in which each type of wit~
1995 V | pretty toys;~she is buried in trade; she buys socks for her
1996 V | residence, and a sumptuous train~of servants--well, such
1997 V | saw the last of gowns with trains! I am still~puzzled to understand
1998 I | smart epigrams, which give~transient pleasure, and leave wounds
1999 VII | outline, the~nostrils are transparently rosy, the forehead squarely
2000 IV | first cold, and your first treachery, when you thought I was
2001 II | frail joy of the young. I treasured /her/ old gloves; I drank
2002 VII | faithful guardian to two treasures of dazzling whiteness, or~